Here is the complete text of this article from page 11A of The Denver Post, September 12, 1985:

Images show the majesty, the mundane of aged ship

Knight Ridder News Service

Weary, wondrous, talking with the excitement of a small boy on Christmas morning, ocean explorer Robert Ballard unveiled for reporters Wednesday breathtaking new images of the luxury liner Titanic, which he discovered Sept. 1 more than two miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

“This to me was an incredible picture. Imagine … a little flagpole survives,” declared Ballard, the scientist who led the expedition that found the sunken liner southeast of Newfoundland. Indeed, there on the screen for hundreds of rapt reporters to see was a clear picture of the intact bow of the Titanic, from which sprouts a small but distinct flagpole.

Here is the complete text of this article from page 10A of The Denver Post, September 12, 1985:

Titanic: A ship in a bottle

By Ted Delaney, Denver Post Staff Writer

The images fit together to paint an eerie still life at more than 2,000 fathoms.

A scatter of corked wine bottles. A silver serving platter, gleaming in artificial light that may be the first to touch it in more than seven decades. Lumps of coal, still distinguishable on the craggy ocean floor.

There seems no doubt that Mrs. J.J. “Margaret” Brown, now known as “Unsinkable Molly,” took charge of an oar — and her lifeboat — and was helpful to fellow passengers as Titanic sank in the North Atlantic and in the weeks after.

But her real heroism may have come in the clear-eyed accounts she gave of the sinking, which have provided much of the iconic images of Titanic’s final moments we still discuss today.

At the time, The Denver Post described this as “especially” for the paper. Perhaps we can write that off to competitive hyperbole. In truth, Brown had told her story to others, including a long interview with the New York Times published two weeks earlier. The full account that made her famous was published at the end of May, 1912, in the Newport Herald. All versions were consistent in her recollection of being dropped into a lifeboat by two men with the words “you are going too,” and her eerie description of hearing the orchestra gradually fade out as Titanic slipped into the ocean.

She did save particular venom in this piece for Joseph Bruce Ismay, chairman of White Star Line, who came to be known by some as “Coward of The Titanic.” He was aboard the ship, managed to get in a lifeboat, and then sealed himself in a cabin aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, never interacting with the other rescued passengers. The next year, he resigned from White Star and largely faded from public view for the rest of his life.

Here is the complete text of this article from page 1B of The Denver Post, April 16, 1972:

Titanic Survivor Recalls the Screaming

By ANTHONY COLLINGS

LONDON–(AP)–Some say the band kept playing as the Titanic carried 1,513 souls to the bottom of the North Atlantic 60 years ago Sunday. But Edith Russell, one of five living survivors, says it isn’t so.

“There was no music, just terrible screaming,” the 93-year old Cincinnati-born spinster said in an interview in the London hotel where she now lives.

Here is the complete text of this article from page 1C of The Denver Post, April 14, 1987:

Unsinkable in the memory

75 years ago, Titanic sailed into legend

Stories by J. Sebastian Sinisi, Denver Post Staff Writer

In the 75 years since the “unsinkable” S.S. Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on the night of April 14, 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the legendary liner’s hold on the popular imagination has remained strong. The ship sank 2 1/2 hours later, early on the morning of April 15, with a loss of 1,513 lives.

Fueled by a stream of popular movies, countless magazine articles and in 1985 the discovery of the Titanic’s hulk beneath 2 1/2 miles of ocean 350 miles off Newfoundland by Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, interest in the long-drowned liner has soared.

Twenty Brides Made Widows When the Titanic Went Down

This story as it originally appeared in The Denver Post, April 20, 1912.

New York, April 20.–In New York there are twenty young women who in the past few months have seen their happiest days. They are the bridge-widows of the Titanic–girls from whom the sea took the heaviest toll in their power to give.

Only one of the twenty-one honeymoon couples on board the lost ship–Mr. and Mrs. George Harder of Brooklyn–is alive. The others have seen the pure white of the wedding gown changed into the sable habiliment of mourning.

In the first cabin there were three widowed brides–Mrs. Daniel W. Marvin of No. 317 Riverside drive; Mrs. Lucien Smith, daughter of Congressman Hughes of West Virginia, and Mrs. John Jacob Astor.

Perhaps the most pathetic bride-widow was in the third cabin. She is Mrs. Adel Nasar, a prety young Syrian of 21. She had been married only a few weeks. Her husband and her two brothers were drowned before her eyes.

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Olympic Captain Denies Reported Story of Towing

This story as it originally appeared in The Denver Post, April 20, 1912.

Plumouth, Eng., April 20–Captain Haddock of the White Star liner Olympic, sister ship of the sunken Titanic, arrived in port on his return trip today and denied in the most vigorous language that he had reported that the Titanic was being towed toward Halifax by the Allan liner Virginian.

“Upon receiving word of the disaster by wirelesss, we rushed towrad the scene at the maximum speed of twent-five knots an hour,” said Captain Haddock” but when we arrived at the spot where the liner had foundered we saw nothing of bodies nor wreckage.”

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NEVER SENT BY WIRELESS OPERATORS ON CARPATHIA

Twenty of Titanic’s Sailors Detained in U. S. and Will Be Questioned as to Conditions Below Decks After the Crash on Iceberg–Captain Rostron Says He Outranked Managing Director Aboard His Own Ship.

New York, April 20.–J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile marine, owners of the White Star line, announced today that as a result of the Titanic disaster he would at once see that every ship of the sixteen lines under his jurisdiction is provided with enough boats to save every soul on board, including the crew.

Here is the complete text of this article from page 1 of The Denver Post, April 20, 1912:

Mrs. Astor Tells Story of the Wreck and Rescue

Lifeboat She Was in Was Overcrowded–Shipped Water From First–Picked Up Six Men, Two of Whom Died.

New York, April 20.–Mrs. John Jacob Astor was still in a highly nervous condition today, suffering from the shock of her experience on the Titanic. Her physician, Dr. Kimball, said that in spite of her nervousness, it had been deemed best to let her talk freely with her relatives and attendants regarding the disaster. It was believed that this would serve to relieve her feelings.

This story as it originally appeared in The Denver Post, April 20, 1912.

Mrs. Astor’s story of her experience, as repeated practically by the physician, is as follows:

“We had already retired when the jar of the collision came. We thought little of it, but Mr. Astor was interested and said he would go on deck and see what was the matter. I called my maid and put on a light dress, planning to follow him in a moment or two.

“Pretty soon Mr. Astor came back and said that he did not think it was anything serious. the ship had grazed some drift ice, he said. We didn’t know then that it was a giant berg. He was calm and so I wasn’t alarmed. We put on ordinary light clothes and went on deck together.

Kristen Iversen is the author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, winner of the Colorado Book Award for Biography and the Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction. Her forthcoming book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, will be published in June.

Daniel Allen Butler is the author of nine books and a maritime and military historian. Among his books are "Unsinkable" -- the Full Story of RMS Titanic" and "The Other Side of the Night -- the Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic was Lost."

Janet Kalstrom became a docent at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver after a 37-year banking career. As part of her work as a docent, she dresses in period costume to play Margaret "Molly" Brown at the museum.

As part of the Denver Post's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, we've invited five experts in some aspect of the tragedy to blog for our website. Their fascination with the topic, in many ways, mirrors the enduring fascination of us all with the story of the giant oceanliner that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Over the next month, our bloggers will provide us insights into the ship's history, the cultural context of the times and the passengers, including the indomitable Margaret "Molly" Brown of Denver who was aboard the vessel when it went down. One of our writers will even share her experience of participating in the Titanic Memorial Cruise, which sails in April from Southampton and retraces the route of the Titanic on its fateful voyage.